[Postor's note: Sodium valproate is also called Depacon, Depakene, Depakote (in combo with valproic acid), Valpro, Orlept, Episenta, Orfiril, Convulex, Epiject, Depakine, Depakine Chrono, ] By Jane Gregory PUBLISHED: 16:21 EST, 19 May 2012 | UPDATED: 03:40 EST, 21 May 2012 Comments (58) Share Fun: Emma Murphy plays...
By Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer at the American Cancer Society. October 6th, 2010 10:31 AM ET Question asked by Ronda of Oklahoma: My husband had non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 1990. He was treated with m-BACOD, then switched to CHOP. Now he is diagnosed with adenocarcinoma. His hematologist said that...
By Bill Berkrot and Ransdell Pierson Tue Feb 28, 2012 5:29pm EST (Reuters) – Health regulators are adding warnings to the labels of widely used cholesterol lowering drugs, such as Lipitor, to say they may raise levels of blood sugar and could cause memory loss. The Food and Drug Administration...
Hundreds of thousands of people who take sleeping pills just twice a month are nearly four times more likely to die prematurely, according to new research. 7:00AM GMT 28 Feb 2012 The study, published in the journal BMJ Open, analysed 10,500 people taking a wide-range of sleeping pills, including tamazepam...
Doctors call for rethink after large study finds prescribed pills could be associated with up to 0.5m extra deaths a year in US Sarah Boseley, health editor guardian.co.uk, Monday 27 February 2012 18.30 EST Sleeping pills prescribed for insomnia are associated with more than a fourfold risk of death, according...
Commonly used antidepressants may increase the risk of developing heart disease by more than a third, a study has found. By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor 7:30AM GMT 01 Dec 2010 Old style anti-depressant drugs were linked with a 35 per cent increased risk of cardiovascular disease, the study found. However,...
By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 6:46 PM on 7th December 2010 A mother-of-two hanged herself while her children watched TV downstairs after anti-depressants turned her into a zombie, an inquest heard A coroner has ordered an urgent investigation into an anti-depressant after it turned a mother-of-two into a...
By Sophie Borland Last updated at 9:10 AM on 18th January 2011 Research has shown children given penicillin and similar medicines are more at risk from irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn’s disease Children given antibiotics are twice as likely to develop digestive problems, research shows. Those prescribed penicillin and similar...
From: http://naturalsociety.com/12930/#ixzz1nnqY9s5Y Mike Barrett NaturalSociety February 21, 2012 Antibiotics, like many other drugs, are handed out by doctors as an end-all solution pill. Even for viral ailments doctors irresponsibly prescribe these pills as a solution. Unfortunately with all of the over-prescriptions and even necessary prescriptions, antibiotics have routinely been creating...
Women who used NSAIDs in first 20 weeks more likely to suffer pregnancy loss, study finds By Linda Carroll msnbc.com contributor updated 9/6/2011 12:08:02 PM ET Common anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen and naproxen may increase the chance of miscarriage if they are taken early in pregnancy, a new...
